Copy-pad.



PATHNTED FEB. a, 1903. T. B. FERGUSON.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

THOMAS E. FERGUSON, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

COPY-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 719,774, dated February3, 1903.

Application filed November 26, 1902. S rial No- 132,922- No m l- To a.whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, THOMAS E. FERGUSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Copy-Pads; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for facilitatinginstruction in penmanship.

I am aware that various devices have been patented in which a separateand movable text is shown; but as far as I am aware the old style hasnot yet been supplanted. The greater majority of copy-books now in usehave the script to be copied at the head of the page, and the pupilcopies down line after line until it' involuntarily copied its ownwriting, rather than that shown in the text at the head of the page.Various devices have been attempted to remedy this, but so far as I amaware none of these has as yet gone into use.

My invention consists in a movable pad or holder in which a plurality ofreversible slips are held. The pad is so arranged that all the writing,except the sentence being copied, is hid from the eye, so that theattention of the pupil is not distracted and may be centered upon thesentence being copied. I combine with the pad thus arranged a basecomposed of one or more strips of blottingpaper, so that moving the paddown from line to line automatically blots the line just written.

My invention also consists in certain other novel details andcombinations and arrangements of parts, that will be hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which the same partsare indicated by the same letters throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the double reversible copying-padin its simplest form. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the parts ofthe pad of Fig. 1 just before these parts are assembled. Fig. 3 shows apad in which there is only a single opening for the plied to the lugindicated in Fig. 6.

slips carrying the matter to be copied. Figs. 4 and 5 are detailsshowing the opposite faces of one of the reversible slips used in anyone of the pads hereinafter described. Fig. 6 shows a modification ofthe device shown in Fig. 1 adapted for use for shorter copy-slips, suchas might be cut from the top of an ordinary copy-book. Fig. 7 showsanother form of the device shown in Fig. 1 in which the copy-slips areheld in place by resilient arms. Fig. 8 is a detail showing areinforcement ap- Fig. 9 is a plan view showing a resilient tongueattached to the top piece, being a modification of the device shown inFig. 7; and Fig. 10 is a section along the line 10 10 of Fig. 9 andlooking to the left.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, the pad is composed of an I-shaped toppiece A, having arms a, secured to a bottom portion 13, as by rivets E.It will be obvious that eyelets, rubber bands, or other equivalentdevices may be used in place of the rivets-such, for instance, as isshown at E and E respectively, in Figs. 3 and 6. To the base of thebottom portion B are secured one or more strips of blottingpaper 0, andbetween the top piece A and the bottom portion B are mounted the slidingstrips D, carrying the matter to be copied, and also the hood-slip F.The sliding copyslips preferably bear inscriptions on each of the longedges, and these are printed on both sides of the sheet, as indicated inFigs. 4and 5. These copy-slips may be either single pieces of paper,celluloid, cardboard, or other suitable material on which the words tobe copied are printed or engraved, or blank strips may be used, and thesentences to be copied may be pasted on.

The hood-slip F is preferably made of celluloid, aluminium, or someother material which is not readily soiled and which when the pad is inuse is slid out to one side or the other, as indicated in Figs. 1, 6, or7, and hides all but one of the sentences on the copyslip. The purposeof this slip is not only to keep the copy-slip clean, but also toprevent the eye of the pupil from seeing sentences already written forquite a distance above the sentence being copied. By sliding thishood-slip from one side to the other of the too pad, thus reversing thepad, two sentences on the top copy-slip will be exhibited sert'aiim, andthus the pupil after copying one sentence for a suflicient length oftime can reverse the pad and the hood-slip and copy the other sentence.By simply turning over the copyslip in the pad, which can be done byslipping it out and putting it back after reversing same, two othersentences will be shown, as before described.

By having six copy-slips in the pad the same subject-matter to be copiedmay be secured as with twenty-four pages of the ordinary copy-book.

In the form of device shown in Fig. 3 the top portion A is held on thepage by rubber bands E, while there is only a single opening for thedisplay of the sentence to be copied-that is, between the arms a and a.

In the form of device shown in Fig. 6 eyelets E are shown connecting thetop piece and bottom portion of the pad, while the slips are heldbetween the lugs a This arrangement is desirable when it is desired touse shorter copy-strips, such as might be clipped from the top of anordinary copy-book. These holding-lugs a may be reinforced with asheathing a of aluminium or other suitable metal,leather,orthelike,asindicatedin Fig.8.

In the form of device shown in Fig. 7 the top portion A is I representedas made of metal, such as aluminium, which is bent over, as at a to holdthe ends of the blotting-pads. This top piece is provided with resilienttongues a to hold the copy-slips and the hoodslipin place. Theseresilient tongues instead of being integral with the top piece, as shownat a in Fig. 7, may be riveted or otherwise attached thereto, as shownat a in Figs. 9 and 10, in which case a top piece of cardboard,celluloid, or the like may be used, while the tongues may be made ofresilient metal.

The top piece of the pad shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 6 is made ofcardboard, pasteboard, celluloid, aluminium, or other suitable material,and I do not confine the invention to the choice of any particularmaterial or materials.

It will be seen that a cheap, simple, easilyoperated, and extremelycompact device is provided whereby a great many sentences may bearranged in condense form, and may be quickly and conveniently shiftedby the pupil, without any special skill or care being a required.

By having the pad fiat, and the sentence to be copied always near thelower edge, the pupil can see the sentence just as it should appear onits copy-book, and can reproduce it with very little, if any, shiftingof the eyes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut awayat the side,of a bottom portion secured to said top piece, and a copy-slip adaptedto slide between said top piece and said bottom portion and to be partlyconcealed by said top piece, substantially as described.

2. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at the side,of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near the ends thereof, anda reversible copy-slip adapted to slide between said top piece and saidbottom portion and to be partly concealed by said top piece,substantially as described.

3. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at the side,of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near the ends thereof, areversible slip adapted to slide between said top piece and said bottomportion and to be partly concealed bysaid top piece, and a hood slip ofopaque material sliding above said copy-slip, substantially asdescribed.

4. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at the side,of abottom portion secured to said top piece near the ends thereof, anda reversible copy-slip adapted to slide between said top piece and saidbottom portion and to be partly concealed by said top piece, both sidesof said slip having copy matter near the edges, substantially asdescribed.

5. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at the side,of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near the ends thereof, areversible copy-slip adapted to slide between said top piece and saidbottom portion and to be partly concealed by said top piece, both sidesof said slip having copy matter near the edges, and a hood-slip ofopaque material sliding above said copy-slip, substantially asdescribed.

6. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at the side,of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near the ends thereof, acopy-slip adapted to slide between said top piece and said bottomportion, and a hood-slip adapted to slide in the space between the toppiece and the bottom portion to cover said copy-slip, substantially asdescribed.

7. In a copy'pad, the combination with a top piececut away at the side,of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near the ends thereof, areversible copy-slip adapted to slide between said top piece and saidbottom portion, and a hood-slip adapted to slide in the space betweenthe top piece and the bottom portion and to cover said copy-slip,substantially as described.

8. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at thesides, of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near the endsthereof, a reversible copy-slip having oppositely-disposed copy matterprinted on both edges and on both sides of the slip adapted to slidebetween said top piece and said bottom portion, and a hood-slip adaptedto slide in the space between thetop piece and the bottom portion and tocover said copy-slip, substantially as described.

scribed.

11. In a copypad, the combination with a top piece cut away at the side,of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near the ends thereof, aplurality of reversible slips adapted to slide between said top pieceand said bottom portion, and a hood-slip of opaque material slidingabove the upper copy-slip, substantially as described.

12. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at theside, of a bottomportion secured to said top piece near the endsthereof, and a plurality of reversible copyslips adapted to slidebetween said toppiece and said bottom portion, both sides of saidcopy-slips having copy matter near the edges, substantially asdescribed.

13. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at theside, of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near the endsthereof, a plurality of reversible copy-slips adapted to slide betweensaid top piece and said bottom portion, both sides of said copyslipshaving copy matter near the edges, and a hood-sli p of opaque materialsliding above the upper copy-slip, substantially as described.

14:. In a copy-pad, the combination with an I-shaped top piece cut awayat both sides, of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near theends thereof, a plurality of copy-slips adapted to slide between saidtop piece and said bottom portion, and a hood-slip adapted to slide inthe space between the top piece and the bottom portion to cover theupper copy-slip, substantially as described.

15. In a copy-pad, the combination with an Ishap'ed top piece cut awayat the sides, of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near theends thereof, a plurality of reversible copy-slips adapted to slidebetween said top piece and said bottom portion, and a'hoodslip adaptedto slide in the space between the top piece and the bottom portion andto cover the uppercopy-slip, substantially as described.

16. Ina copy-pad, the combination with an I-shaped top piece cut away atthe sides, of a bottom portion secured to said top piece near the endsthereof, a plurality of reversible copy-slips having oppositelydisposedcopy matter printed on both edges and on both sides of the slip adaptedto slide between said top piece and said bottom portion, and a hoodslipadapted to slide in the space between the top piece and the bottomportion and to cover the upper copy-slip, substantially as described.

17. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at thesides and provided with holding tongues or projections, of a bottomportion secured to said top piece near the ends thereof, a copy-slipadapted to slide between said top piece and said bottom portion and tobe held in place by said tongues or projections, and a hood-slip adaptedto slide in the space between the top piece and the bottom portion tocover said copy-slip, substantially as described.

18. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at thesides and provided with holding tongues or projections, of a bottomportion secured to said top piece near the endsthereof, a reversiblecopy-slip adapted to slide between said top piece and said bottomportion and to be held in place by said tongues or projections, and ahood-slip adapted to slide in the space between the top piece and thebottom portion and to cover said copyslip, substantially as described.

19. In a copy-pad, the combination with a top piece cut away at thesides and provided with holding tongues or projections, of a bottomportion secured to said top piece near the ends thereof, a reversiblecopy-slip having oppositely-disposed copy matter printed on both edgesand on both sides of the slip adapted to slide between said top pieceand said bottom portion and to be held in place by said tongues orprojections, and a hood-slip adapted to slide in the space between thetop piece and the bottom portion and to cover said copy-slip,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS B. FERGUSON. Witnesses:

J. STEPHEN GIUSTA, GRAFTON L. MoGILL.

